International business Books

Macro-level dynamics and modelling are well represented in the mainstream political risk literature. However, not many writings on the subject get their hands dirty in terms of revealing the hard, nuanced and practical work behind knowing what the issues...

A deep dive into a success story in African business development, this book provides a multi-layered perspective on the realities of doing business in Kenya.The book's detailed information about the economic, social, technological, and cultural...

This book derives its underpinnings from the actual practice of global and digital business. It's imperative for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to learn from the experiences of other MNEs how they do business and how they became successful in their...

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China has established a uniform set of rules concerning content control of standard business terms, to which both B2B and B2C contracts are subject. How do the Chinese rules for the judicial review of the content of standard business terms, contained in...

This book studies the role of exports in Vietnam's rapid growth since the country implemented a comprehensive reform (Doimoi) in 1986 to transform itself from a centrally command system to a 'socialist-oriented market economy'. One central finding is...

Diploma Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1, University of Linz (International Management), language: English, abstract: This diploma thesis provides an overview of the contemporary debate about...

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "hot topics" in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries.The first part of the book examines the prohibition of abuse of a dominant...

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OWNER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY?Chancing Your Arm is one man's entertaining and unflinchingly honest story of business and personal success against all odds. David García González' inspirational account of his...

The internet gives us access to the whole world to build business. But many SMEs are Poles Apart: sitting in the cold, and missing out on the huge potential that the online space can offer. This is as true for the smallest businesses in the country as...

Everything you've ever learned about generating leads and growing your business is wrong. Everything you've ever heard, everything you've ever tried, and everything you've ever done -- it's all wrong. We'll reveal the strategies you can immediately...

A volume in The Entrepreneurship SIG at European Academyof Management: New Horizons with strong TraditionsSeries Editors Luca Gnan, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Hans Lundberg, Linnaeus University;Lucrezia Songini, Eastern Piedmont University; and...

'42 Rules for Outsourcing Your Call Center (2nd Edition)' is a compilation of real-life problems, lessons learned, pitfalls found, and practical approaches for planning, implementing, and outsourcing call center operations. It provides a path for...

In today's business world, people negotiate every day,everywhere, using techniques learned from variousbooks, experience, and education. Some are more culturallyaware and others much less. Some forget thatnegotiation is, first of all, a human interaction...

This book explores the training for an international executive for ethical, strategic and competitive leadership.

The overall aim of this volume is to present the research studies carried out in the Middle East and Asia in the fields of culture and gender and their influence on leadership in particular. The cultures and practices of these geographical regions are...

Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies draws together postcolonial and indigenous thinking through the conceptual lens of core-periphery relations to advance debate in organization studies. A particular aim of this book is to broaden, deepen...

The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals is about strategic issues of modern management from the view of global business practice. In the 2010 issue of Fortune Magazine's top 500 Multi-National Corporations, the USA ranked number one with 139 companies...

Suggests important ramifications for both Western and Eastern Human Resources Practices and is the first research of its kind to empirically investigate the effect of Chinese core values, which originated from Chinese traditional thinking, on HRM...

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are...

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development aims to make a theoretical and practical contribution meeting the need for studies on the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship and societal outcomes. This book aims to answer the following research question: Do...

Focuses on the individual experiences of Western expatriates in China by merging academic knowledge and real-life testimonials given by interviewees. The author also draws on her own experience of living and working in China, to explore a range of...

Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all aspects and stages of the production process. This volume illuminates social relations and interaction...

Categorically reviews the theories of communication, best practices in social media and previous research, and analyzes the corporate involvement towards strategic and tactical stewardship in serving customer-centric business requirements.

The goals of Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries may appear to be simple: it describes what management theory and practice looked like in the first century, uses this as a lens to examine what the...

Presenteeism presents the important issues related to the nature and extent of presenteeism and cited examples from different studies. The book discusses in depth why employees come to work despite being sick, strategies to manage presenteeism behavior...

This book investigates the trends and challenges that ports, logistics and supply chains have tackled in recent decades and the way forward. A new concept, port focal logistics is introduced which appreciates the efforts by previous studies in this...

Presents papers which grapple with some of the most important developments and challenges in International Business, both for the firms who must fashion strategy within a rapidly changing world economic order and researchers who seek to explain the...

The internationalization of emerging economies has brought new perspectives to international business development. Focusing on the extensive impact these emerging economies and firms have had, this volume covers the strong players, such as Brazil,...

In recognition of Professor Ikujiro Nonaka's contribution to the field of Knowledge Management this book, forming part of The Nonaka Series on Knowledge and Innovation from Palgrave Macmillan, deals with a variety of aspects of the Knowledge Management...

One of the first books to analyze business and financial aspects of sustainable transport and fuels systems and provides novel insights for researchers, managers, and politicians who work in energy and sustainability related areas.

Presents research findings and theoretical developments in the International Business field, with special emphasis on the issues of internationalization, innovation and sustainability in Latin America.

A casebook that discusses all the mega mergers and acquisitions in terms of value, that have happened in different industry sectors such as pharmacy, technology, telecommunications, media and entertainment, electrical and electronics, energy, finance,...

By drawing on the experiences of Danone, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and SABMiller, this book provides an insight into why and how the managing a Chinese Partner can deliver value for a joint venture in China, a goal shared by many but achieved by few.

This book provides cutting edge research and knowledge and an academic study of the impact of globalisation in different areas affecting management and how management is responding. It gives a comprehensive analysis of what is actually happening and...

Considerable attention has been given to the topic of governance and its relevance to private and public sector organisations. However, little attention has been given to the impact of adopting different governance models on societies and nations which...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

The "managerial revolution," or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying...

The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations in recent years. Adopted with the primary goal of facilitating European-level workers' participation in information-sharing and...

This new book brings together contributions from recognized experts in trade policy, discussing and evaluating economic integration in the Western Hemisphere, the alternative trade strategies being pursued in this area and Latin American relationships...

After three decades of spectacular economic growth in China, the problem is no longer how to achieve growth, but how to manage its consequences and how to sustain it. The most important consequence, at least as far as Chinese policy makers are concerned,...

This book is concerned with the role of financial intermediation in economic development and growth in the context of Malaysia. Using an analytical framework, the author investigates the Malaysian economy from 1960 onwards to examine how far financial...

The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase in the demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the concentration of capital in, and the geographical expansion of, the production of natural resources, globalizing...

Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia's foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London School of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, McGill University, MIT, and latterly Macquarie University. Kemp was...

"Internacionalización de la empresa para Pymes y profesionales"aborda las peculiaridades de las Pymes, reconociendo sus dinámicas únicas y recursos limitados. Se enfoca en ser una brújula para aquellos que buscan expandirse internacionalmente,...

The paper reviews the growth dynamics of cargo transportation along the Northern Sea Route from 2014-2020 and the structure of import-export and short sea shipping in 2020. It is determined that the Arctic region has a large amount of natural resources,...